NetApplications has released its latest browser market share figures, and these figures show that Chrome has overtaken Safari as the number three browser worldwide, behind Internet Explorer and Firefox. IE, by the way, continues to lose popularity rather fast.

A word on FF being slow - why, really ? I have the same version on Opensuse, W7, XP and Mac, but I don't think it's slower. Bad config or wrong addons ?

I haven't used FF in a while now so I don't know if it's sped up recently, but when I moved away from it to Chrome it was both slower to start up and it rendered everything a lot slower. Especially on Linux FF was dog slow, a lot slower than its Windows counterpart. And yes, even without any addons.

How about Fasterfox, Firebug, NewsFox, Download statusbar, FlashBlock, FireFTP, ReminderFox, thousands of themes, the search bar auto-options ? I'm not aware of browser that has so much customization ability, but I may be wrong.

I kinda agree, FireFox is probably the most customizable browser of them all. But not everyone needs all that and as such other browsers suit them better. Oh, and FlashBlock is no longer FF-only, I use FlashBlock and AdBlock+ happily on my Chrome